US Policy for the last 50 years has been to allow Russia to do whatever it wants with it's old colonies....its fun when warmongering GOPer filth try to incite a war while a dem is in office.

7:41 am April 14, 2014

Fred wrote:

Let Russia be Russia...

8:03 am April 14, 2014

Ken wrote:

The pigs of DC have their noses too deep in the trough to see or hear the screams in Ukraine.

8:12 am April 14, 2014

sendintheclowns wrote:

Everyone knows this is GWB's fault! If only he had been nicer to Vlad. Don't blame this on BO, he's a Nobel winner, remember?

9:19 am April 14, 2014

Incompetence at Every Level wrote:

THe Obama administration is a failure on every level: domestically incompetent, foreign policy failures everywhere you look. Obama is an arrogant fool who thinks he is the smartest man in the room when he really does not know anything...I pity the US after 2 1/2 more years of the lack of leadership in the White House.

1:22 pm April 14, 2014

Concerned. wrote:

You can't govern Ukraine if Russia is antagonistic towards the leadership. High trade to Russia, dependency on Russian gas and a populace from Kharhov to Odessa that is Russian in thinking. When the Russians conquered eastern Ukraine from the muslims, they settled the region. The satellite countries are populated with Russians that wanted to get away from the bureaucracy of Moscow. They want to be independent of Russia but allied with them.

The western region is antagonistic to Russia, the Kiev region more independent thinking than the east and south.

I don't understand how we implement anything without Russian cooperation. Their demands 1) no laws against Russian language, 2) federation (or more like a confederation) 3) recognition of Crimea as Russian.

1) is just recognizing the reality that people speak Russian in Ukraine.

As mentioned above, there are just real differences between the different regions. I think it's best to agree to 2) and then negotiate as good a deal as possible. Russia understands it's backyard and the US negotiating position is getting worse everyday.

I think its pretty ridiculous that the current Kiev government thought that they could not renew the lease to a deep sea base in the Black Sea that Russia has controlled for 250 years. You either are going to defend your country or you aren't. That base is a critical national security asset of the Russians. The Russians are going to defend their country. So 3) is just recognizing reality.

2:54 pm April 14, 2014

Fred wrote:

I think Russia should do the same to US. Start a kudetta in Texas and ask them to seperate from USA.

8:17 am April 15, 2014

AngryinSC wrote:

As long as Putin sees no downside to his actions, he will continue to play the world with his obvious ability to say anything he wants while doing whatever he wants. The US Navy must move to surround the Russian Federation putting every border at risk, send a complete carrier task force into the Black Sea, and then tell Putin to cease and desist in Ukraine and move his troops away from that border. While his staffers are well intentioned, they appear unable to grasp the gravity of this situation. This is almost as big as Bin Laden and that needs to be addressed just as much as his headwinds from his loyal opposition.

1:17 pm April 15, 2014

mik wrote:

Obama should recognize that power in Ukraine came crazy jackals, and that Russia is not an aggressor , Russia could not bear to look at how the army is prepared to fight with the protesters in the Russian-speaking regions .
It's time to end this lie.
When protesters occupied maidan , West said that this is a manifestation of democracy. Yanukovych signed an agreement with the protesters that Yanukovych will bring the police and the protesters leave the square. They are gone. They defeated the ruling party office . Then seized power . Some regions do not recognize the leaders of the protesters , whom nobody elected . And began to organize their protests against the invaders from the Maidan . Leaders Maidan quickly forgot the words of democracy and declared protesters separatists and terraristami , and said he was going to deal with them harshly . People were afraid that the new government will arrange physical attacks on them. In Crimea Russia came , no one died .
Now protests swept the south-east of Ukraine, but Russia is afraid to invade the Ukraine , and in the meantime Turchynov ordered the army to fight against the people of the south-east and has already killed 11 people.
Here it is, the hypocrisy of the West: the protests on Independence - a manifestation of democracy, they can not be against the use of force . Protests in the regions - separatism , which must be suppressed by force. Russia , which came when called from Kiev deal over the Crimea - the aggressor . Ukraine, which now kills its people - no.

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